Hello 2019 – Day 11
Today was travel day. Time to return to noise, chatter, heated houses, flannel sheets and no views of the rising sun from our house. So I relished the morning’s sunrise. […]
Goodbye to 2018- Day 10
The last day of 2018 and our last full day here on island started with a spectacular sunrise. After a lazy morning of coffee and french toast sticks, we meandered […]
Homebodies – Day 9
We pretty much remained close to the house today. No far out exploring, rather we explored closer to the house. Sunrise was lovely once again today. As we were planning […]
You Finish Where You Start – Day 8
Our morning started with a beach walk and you guessed it, it ended the same way. Up early hoping the day would deliver calmer winds, clear skies, beach walks that […]
Rainbow Watching – Day 7
It was a stormy, windy, rainy night. It was crazy how hard the wind was blowing. The clouds obscured the sunrise and it was so windy, I swear the coffee […]
Island Life As a Visitor – Day 6
Today we have settled into our island life as a visitor. It shouldn’t have taken us this long to get in our groove, but this time it did. I think […]
Reunited and It Feels So Good – Day 5
I felt like a little kid on Christmas morning, all giddy with excitement knowing we would be reunited with our luggage today. First things though coffee down at the beach […]
It’s a Christmas Miracle – Day 4
We have a Christmas miracle and a Christmas Angel, Vern. Vern found our luggage and will be getting it to us on Boxing day. More on that later… Our early […]
Naughty or Nice List? – Day 3
I believe one of us was put on Santa’s naughty list and the other one was put on his nice list. You can fight amongst yourselves where to place us… […]
Our Luggage Prefers Nassau – Day 2
We woke up on Staniel Cay and watched the sunrise with our tea. I know, tea. Guess where our ground coffee was? In our luggage that wasn’t with us (note […]
Delays, Diversions and Departures – Day 1
Saturday the plan was fly DC to Nassau, catch a 2 p.m. flight to Long Island and be at our rental house by 3:30 p.m. The plan didn’t happen, but […]
Early Birds Catches..
an empty trail. We had the trails to ourselves most times, lighting may not be the best, but an empty trail is worth it. Today we hiked around Valley of […]
Hitting the Low Point in Our Marriage
Yup we hit the low point in our marriage… How did we get to this point in our marriage? Well we took at 347 mile road trip today that took […]
Vegas Baby – Doing It Our Way
Oh yes we did, we planned a get away weekend to Vegas, baby! To hike, not to gamble and see shows, we came for outdoor activities. We landed in Las […]
Lyme Corner Trails – October 2018
Our four mile hike today took us into the Lyme Corner Trails in Connecticut. This area consists of Hartman Park, Walbridge Woodlands and Philip E. Young Preserve. We only did […]
Pisgah Mountain Loop, NH – September 2018
I’ve been eyeing the Pisgah State Park for a few years. When we used to travel up to the White Mountains to babysit a friend’s cottage, our meander home to […]
Monroe-Dunbar Brook Trail, Ma Sept 2018
Saturday, September 8 we decided to do a 10 mile lollipop hike in the Monroe State Forest, located in Monroe, Massachusetts. Actually the proverbial “we” was Mike who found the […]